Vajrayāna
Basic Meaning
The esoteric Buddhist tradition which developed as a syncretic system involving deity worship, use of mantras, physical energy, and mystical practices. It is also known as the mantra tradition and the tantric school as a result of being based on texts known as tantras.
Term Variations | |
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Key Term | Vajrayāna |
Topic Variation | Vajrayāna |
Tibetan | རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ། ( dorje thekpa) |
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration | rdo rje theg pa ( dorje thekpa) |
Devanagari Sanskrit | वज्रयान |
Romanized Sanskrit | vajrayāna |
Chinese | 金剛乘 |
Chinese Pinyin | Jin'gangsheng |
Buddha-nature Site Standard English | Diamond Vehicle |
Jeffrey Hopkin's English Term | Vajra Vehicle |
Term Information | |
Source Language | Sanskrit |
Basic Meaning | The esoteric Buddhist tradition which developed as a syncretic system involving deity worship, use of mantras, physical energy, and mystical practices. It is also known as the mantra tradition and the tantric school as a result of being based on texts known as tantras. |
Related Terms | tantra, secret mantra, mantra |
Related Topic Pages | Https://kuenselonline.com/vajrayana-the-diamond-vehicle/ |
Term Type | Noun |
Definitions | |
Dung dkar Tshig mdzod Chen mo | གསང་སྔགས་ཀྱི་ལམ་ལ་གོ་དགོས། དེ་ཡང་རྒྱུད་སྡེ་བཞི་ནས་བཤད་འི་ལམ་གྱི་རིམ་པ་རྣམས་ཡིན། ཐེག་པ་དང་ལམ་གཉིས་སྤྱི་དང་བྱེ་བྲག་ཡིན་པས་ཁྱབ་ཆེ་ཆུང་ཡོད། |
Wikipedia | wikipedia:Vajrayana |